10/15/1987
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"Franklin Roosevelt was the first President I ever saw."
"It is my belief that the Federal Government has a special responsibility to fill in temporarily and do what it can to reduce and, hopefully, eliminate these problems."
"This task force will be similar to the one we established for the city of Atlanta."
"I think there's a basic reason for this, one that Franklin Roosevelt understood as well as anyone."